The newest iteration of TIRF’s “Alumni Map” is now available! Just last month, the Foundation announced the 2021 TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) recipients. Via this year’s DDG competition, another 15 doctoral students were awarded funds from TIRF to help them complete their research and present their findings at international

Imagine yourself (or remember yourself) as a junior researcher. Let’s say you’d had good methodological training and were confident about your knowledge in terms of your subject-matter expertise. But you were also at the bottom of the hierarchy in terms of institutional power. Perhaps you were a research assistant, just

Earlier this month, TIRF Trustee Prof. David Nunan provided a presentation for language education teachers, researchers, and administrators throughout China, who are members of Chengdu Duoweimingju (DWMJ) Institute of Education’s organization. David’s talk was the first of three sessions for DWMJ in its fall 2021 Speaker Series line-up. Via his

As our calendars soon turn toward November, the holiday season in many parts of the world starts to take shape. And as the seasons change, nonprofit organizations like TIRF commence their annual appeal plans. It’s never too early to begin considering making your list of nonprofits whose mission you would

The East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) held its 20th annual conference remotely on October 22-23, 2021. ECOLT represents a U.S. East Coast group of professionals, scholars, and students who are involved in language testing projects and research. One of the organization’s goals is to support connections between academia,

This year marks the 20th consecutive year TIRF has offered its Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDGs)  to doctoral candidates around the world. With the support of our partners – Cambridge Assessment English, the British Council, and Educational Testing Service, Inc. – along with many individual donors, TIRF has recently completed the process of awarding

The deadline for TIRF’s 2022 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts is tomorrow: October 1, 2021. For the 2022 competition, a prize of $500 will be awarded for an article or chapter published in English and dealing with some aspect of language policy

The Foundation’s fall meeting took place earlier this month. TIRF’s Board of Trustees, along with its Chief Operating Officer, Ryan Damerow, met virtually to further TIRF’s various programmatic and operational endeavors. Although the online format of the meeting did not allow for the usual eight hours Board members are used

I hate September. Well, maybe hate is too strong a word. Or maybe it is not the right word. I dread September. Why? Because I hate, or rather, dread going back to school. I’ve felt this way since I was 11 or 12 years old. Why did I dread school so much?